Downloads
Download the windows version from here V 1.18.7 Windows
Download the mac version (beta) from here V 1.18.7 Mac
Want to check out the new version with auto classification? Find it here
camera review app to quickly go through field and game cameras. The app is installed on the desktop. Photos are accessed from the desktop machine. As the user reviews photos the mark the ones they want to keep and click on the species that they want to observe. This saves the selected photos to the cloud and organizes them as species observations.
You can now save an observation template for quick photo tagging.
Need To Consolidate Your Photo Files Into One Folder?
Set up your list of review taxa
On the web app go to taxa - taxa list and populate the "Camera Review" list
Request permissions
contact support@nrds.io to make sure you have to correct permissions to use the review app
Download and install the app
you can download the app from here
Download the windows version from here V 1.18.7 Windows
Download the mac version (beta) from here V 1.18.7 Mac
Get started
Open up the app
Log in
Create a Review
Click Add Review
select the folder where your photos are stored - make sure you select the lowest level folder where the photos are stored
Select the camera location and check date where your photos are from
Add camera placement and notes
Create your review!!
Start/ Continue a Review
On the main review page select the review and click view
Review The Photos
from the review page click Continue
If there are previous observations they will show here
you can edit the observations here as well
Scan and Review Photos
Scroll down to view photos
Click the magnifying glass to go into single photo mode
Here you can hold down the right or left arrow to play through photos or single click
Select Photos for Observations
click the checkbox to select the photos you want to record
you can select as many as you want or just the first and last of the observation
you can shift select multiple photos
Once selected click the taxa you want to observe on the right side of the app
Observation form
once you click a taxa the observation form will popup
fill it out
you can add other taxa
Click Create Observation
Edit and Existing Observation
if you made a mistake you can edit the observation under the observation tab
Save an Observation Template
Observation templates allow you to save an observation form and quickly apply it to other photos. For example counting rats or marking the first arrival or a species.
Mark photos and select a taxon
Click save as template on the observation form
Name the template
The template is now available on the Obs Templates tab
Delete an observation Template
If you no longer want to save the observation template
Create an observation
Select observation template from the top
Click trash can for the one you want to delete
What Do the Colors Mean?
Colors on the bottom of the photo indicate a difference of > 5minutes between photos so you can separate events easily
Blue squares indicate photos that have been tagged in events. This only lasts for a session
Green checkmark indicates the last photo you were looking at either when scanning in big screen mode or opening and closing a review. This is to help you find your place
Complete A Review
when you are finished click End Review
You will be prompted to Continue Later or to Complete Review
If you select continue later it will save your position and when you open the review again you will start at that photo
Check out the observations on the web app
observations and photos get save to the NRDS.io site under
search the date or for camera review
Change the photo folder path
Change photo path - if you need to change the photo path of the review click edit from the main review page
Warning if you select a folder with a different set of photos this will change the indexes and mess up your review
